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Such crumbs and orts as drop our way seem consistent at 5". Not a tablet at that size -- nor much of a "monster" either, anymore. Still seems odd to me that there's a 5" full HD display for sale that the maker isn't using first in it's own device.

Hmmmm... Supposed leaked press renders. If this is an accurate representation of the bezel, this is the REAL edge to edge display and it's happening in a more proper larger screened device rather than something targeting iPhone 5 with a bit more screen, but not really because of onscreen buttons.

Could be Microsoft related. And I get the odd impression there is something weird happening with the WM8 devices as these HTC and Nokia ones are getting all the love, but the Samsung Ativ S is basically a Galaxy SIII with WM8, which seems more exciting to me than it's getting credit for. Bigger screen and replaceable battery should count for something! Seemingly though Samsung didn't get as much help from MS for their stuffs as the other two and so just threw it in at the end of the Note II launch rather than having a dedicated event and now it's under everyone's radar because of it.

It is strange how some some phones and brands are pushed. Is tbis phone to just appear with little hype? Then again the leaked roadmap did not include the Note II.

This will be pushed HARD by VZW. Pretty sure Galaxy SIII and Note 2 get very LITTLE VZW marketing dollars since they have effectively been pushed as Samsung dictated and are just on VZW cause VZW would rather offer them than lose customers that want them as they had to do with iPhone and Apple. Although they probably work better with Apple than Samsung as they and Apple are both very into locked up devices and such.

This would be a good fit. Probably no mSD in the first place. So would be almost done as a Nexus from the get go. Also, the reason I am not getting another Nexus. Seemingly Samsung really has the not-an-iPhone market figured out the best. Moto is at least CLOSE, but is ignoring the larger screened aspect. With the Maxx versions though I am ok with them not doing removable battery. They need a note sorta device with digitizer Stylus and all though. The cursor and left click aspects are just too good to ignore and need deeper integration in Android.